SPECIAL DELIVERY…NO INSTRUCTIONS ATTACHED. Exactly what is effective parenting? How can we help our child succeed in life if there is only one of us doing the full job? It is a daunting task as a positive role model consistently clarifies using clear expectations.
Here are 6 tips for parenting that we can all use!
- Stay Calm (easier said than done) but a wise word.
- Be consistent.
- Keep a positive attitude.
- Praise a child constantly. (To this day, my son has the most beautiful printing, penmanship and precise drafting skill in architecture because of one first grade teacher’s accolades.
- Have a playful sense of humor. Kids love to tumble and giggle, even with grandparents.
NEVER never tell a child he is dumb, “like his father” or no good. You will set up a lifetime of shame, humiliation and failure. You only get one chance. Parenting is never a redo – well, maybe that’s why being a grandparent is so much fun!
- Parenthood.com – Supports and empowers moms and dads as they face today’s choices and challenges, throughout all stages of parenting. Parenthood.com connects them to the up-to-date and relevant information, resources, community, products and services they need to raise healthy, happy children.
- Parents.com – Online parenting magazine.
- Babyzone – Premier online destination for highly personalized content and tools that seamlessly cover the journey from preconception to pregnancy and parenting your new baby. With your BabyZone membership, you’ll have free access to a wealth of articles and expert advice to guide you through the adventure of pregnancy and beyond.
- Parenting.org – Specializes in training, consulting and researching parenting practices that can help you in the day-to-day development of your children.
- Familylife.com – At FamilyLife, we realized there was a clear need to define God’s principles for the family so we created The Family Manifesto to provide families with a declaration of values.
- Focusonthefamily.com – A global Christian ministry dedicated to helping families thrive. We provide help and resources for couples to build healthy marriages that reflect God’s design, and for parents to raise their children according to morals and values grounded in biblical principles.
- KidsHealth.org – If you’re looking for information you can trust about kids and teens that’s free of “doctor speak,” you’ve come to the right place. KidsHealth is the most-visited site on the Web for information about health, behavior, and development from before birth through the teen years.
- Kyria.com – A resource of Leadership Journal and Christianity Today International. Its mission is to equip women to use their gifts, take responsibility for their spiritual formation and the discipleship of others, and to fulfill the work God has called them to—through the power of his life-transforming and life-sustaining Spirit.
- Parenting Advice – To ease your worries and doubts.
For Single Parents
- Bethany Christian Services – The goal of pregnancy counseling at Bethany Christian Services is to ensure that every client facing an unplanned pregnancy receives accurate and complete information about their options and those for their child. We want every client to make a fully informed decision that is the best one for the expectant parents and their children.
- CrisisPregnancy.com – Adoption.com is committed to helping as many children as possible find loving, permanent homes. We also provide critical information at the decision-making moment to women facing crisis pregnancies. We assist adoptees and birthparents to find birthfamilies, and we help hopeful adoptive parents make adoption dreams come true. We are especially committed to helping special needs children in the U.S. and around the world, who otherwise wouldn’t be able to find families.
- Momlogic.com – Part of the Warner Bros. Women’s Digital Network and is the premier destination for mothers online. Momlogic.com serves up honest, real and often humorous perspective, helping moms stay connected to each other and the world around them. In addition to posting topical, entertaining and relevant stories, the site features breaking news and how it affects the lives of mothers and their families in an ever-changing world.
- Single Parents Network – At Single Parents Network is to provide a hub, as you will, that has collectively gathered single parent web sites, articles, information, government resources, online discussion forum support boards, books and so much more, for any one looking for single parent information.
Decision Making
Unplanned pregnancy does not mean making uninformed decisions. We want to help you understand your options. Read more
- Parents Connect – At ParentsConnect we don’t believe that parenting is a science. There’s no one way or right way to do it. So while we might not have all the answers, we can try to support you and help make your life a little easier. We provide parents with daily tips, recipes, activities, product recommendations and expert (but nonjudgmental!) parenting info, baby names and their meanings, and family-friendly resources in your area. We also want you to share your parenting expertise by submitting your own tips, local activities, crafts, recipes, photos, war stories, comments and ratings to our site.
- Working Mother Magazine – The award-winning Working Mother magazine reaches 2.2 million readers and is the only national magazine for career-committed mothers. A digital hub for career-focused and entrepreneur moms, delivers at home and at work information, advice and a broad range of news, solutions and resources daily along with the voices of more than 125 workmom bloggers.
- Family WatchDog – We invite you to use our free service to locate registered sex offenders in your area. Just enter an address and we’ll show a map. You can click on the squares that appear and see photos (where available) addresses, convictions and other information about the offender.
Pro-Life & Adoption Links
- Human Life of Washington – Our mission is to reestablish throughout our culture, the recognition that all beings of human origin are persons endowed with intrinsic dignity and the inalienable right to life from conception to natural death. To accomplish this restoration, we use peaceful and lawful means of educating and motivating the human heart.
- Teens for Life: A Pro-Life Website Just for Teens – Teens for Life is an outreach of Indiana Right to Life, a not-for-profit organization working to restore and protect the sanctity of life and a state-level affiliate of the National Right to Life Committee. Through this social networking site and a related Teens for Life newsletter, Teens for Life seeks to educate teens on the issues of abortion, infanticide, and euthanasia in an effort to move our culture back to a respect for life.
- College Outreach Program – If you believe in the strength of women and the potential of every human life. If you refuse to choose between women and children. If you believe no women should be forced to choose between sacrificing her education and career plans and sacrificing her child. If you reject violence and exploitation. Join us in challenging the status quota.
- Physicians for Life – Physicians for life exists to draw attention to the issues of abortion, euthanasia, stem cell research, cloning, infanticide, teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, out-of-wedlock sexual activity and the medical merits of risk elimination through sexual abstinence. Our sponsoring organization, Alabama Physicians For Life, Inc. (APFLI), was founded in 1986 and has produced a series of brochures, booklets, and digests which are distributed throughout the USA, and internationally.
- Americans United for Life – Founded in 1971 as the first national pro-life organization in the United States, Americans United for Life (AUL) is a nonprofit, public-interest law and policy organization whose vision is a nation in which everyone is welcomed in life and protected in law.
- Life Decisions International – Life Decisions International (LDI) brings together many of North America’s leading experts for its primary mission of challenging the radical agenda of Planned Parenthood worldwide.
- March for Life – March for Life is an annual pro-life rally protesting abortion, held in Washington, D.C., on or around the anniversary of the United States Supreme Court’s decision legalizing abortion in the case Roe v. Wade. The march is organized by the March for Life Education and Defense Fund. The overall goal of the march is to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision. The march typically draws around 250,000 attendees each year.
- American Association of Pro-Life OB/GYNs – Our purpose is to reaffirm the unique value and dignity of individual human life in all stages of growth and development from fertilization onward. Strong voices within our culture (and within our professional College) espouse elective abortion on demand as a standard of care for unwanted pregnancies. Often perinatologists are quick to recommend abortion as a “final solution” for “defective” in utero babies. We oppose these values. Be assured that there are many in this specialty who hold our view of the intrinsic value of all human life. We view the physician’s role as a caregiver, responsible, as far as possible, for the well-being of both the mother and her unborn child.
- Pro-Life Maternal Fetal Medicine – Maternal-Fetal Medicine (MFM) is a subspecialty of Obstetrics and Gynecology dealing with all matters that can affect the health of a mother or fetus from before conception to the postpartum period. Physicians who practice Maternal-Fetal Medicine are obstetrician/gynecologists who have received additional training, and performed research, in the care and management of pregnant women and fetuses.
- Campaign for Working Families – CWF is a non-partisan political action committee (PAC) dedicated to electing pro-family, pro-life and pro-free enterprise candidates to public offices. Gary Bauer formed CWF in 1996 to represent the interests and values of America’s traditional families in the political arena.
- Family Research Council – Since 1983, Family Research Council (FRC) has advanced faith, family and freedom in public policy and public opinion. FRC’s team of seasoned experts promotes these core values through policy research, public education on Capitol Hill and in the media, and grassroots mobilization. We review legislation, meet with policymakers, publish books and pamphlets, build coalitions, testify before Congress, and maintain a powerful presence in print and broadcast media. Through our outreach to pastors, we equip churches to transform the culture.
- Option Line – Option Line provides caring, confidential support to anyone affected by an unexpected pregnancy. Our consultants are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week via a toll-free phone number, email or live chat. We will connect you with a nearby pregnancy resource center that offers pregnancy tests as well as answers to your questions about pregnancy, STIs (Sexually Transmitted Infections), abortion, adoption, parenting, medical referrals and much more.
- National Life Center – National Life Center is the parent corporation to the 1st Way Pregnancy Centers across the country. Additionally, we have a network of Associates who have chosen to work closely with us. Through our National Toll-Free hotline we are able to network and directly connect to over 3,500 centers throughout the U.S.
- Vitae Caring Foundation – Vitae Foundation is a non-profit, educational organization focused on using research-based messaging to educate the public about the value and sanctity of human life; restoring this value as a core belief in the American culture; and reducing the number of abortions.
- Susan B. Anthony List – The Susan B. Anthony List, and its connected Political Action Committee, the SBA List Candidate Fund, are dedicated to electing candidates and pursuing policies that will reduce and ultimately end abortion. To that end, the SBA List will emphasize the election, education, promotion, and mobilization of pro-life women.
- Once Upon a Family – We know what we want for our families: loving connections, strong family values, and happy holiday memories. Our “fairytale image” of what a happy home looks like, however, is often far from our day-to-day reality. Although we have good intentions and we want what’s best for our families, many of us spend time and money doing things that don’t really matter and we often miss the opportunity to do the little things that make all the difference. Once Upon a Family offers simple solutions for busy families: the fun, practical tools we need in today’s dizzy-busy world to bring our good intentions to life.